Constituency
79. Benipatti East
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BENIPATTI-EAST
CPI 36.5%won by 14.0%INC 22.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 14.0%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 36.5% of the vote here (+36.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.0% between them, down from 76.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
35,513
Margin
4,981
14.03%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1RAJKUMAR PURBEYCommunist Party of India · CPI12,97336.5%
- 2SHUBCHANDRA MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC7,99222.5%
- 3CHULHAI JHASwatantra Party · SWA7,02219.8%
- 4RAMDEO YADAVPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,97211.2%
- 5ILLYAS SHEIKHIndependent · IND3,0238.5%
- 6SHIVSHANKAR DASIndependent · IND5311.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +61.2%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 36.5%
- INC share
- 47.2% → 22.5%
- Turnout
- — → —